The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-09-15
CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS.
Anals~l- by a southerner Of the Con-
federste Army.

AAal4 ri- by >outherner OF ths ioh-
federste Army.
Special Correspondence
New YORK. Sept. l3.-"You are away of
in your notions about the Confederates IN the
south" said member Of a Georgia regiment
TO me the other day-"away of. can show
yon that they are very few indeed compared
with the Federal survivors
Why, there certainly are several thou
sands Confederates in this very city" re-
piled, "and would not your muster rolls show
how many survivedr
We have uone-you all got 'em at the sur
render. But, look here, how many actual
men do You suppose there were in the Confed-
crate army, not counting double enistmentsf
son a million or two
1T would crowd em 10 20 much over bali
a million. Now IL is true there are hundred,
Of the survivors in this city, and probably
5000 in all the north and the territories. bat
/ am positive there are not 10000 in all the
sixteen southern states today-not one man
10 fifty Of the entire population. You can
zee by the census that all the white people IA
the Confederate states In 1861 were no more
than .. ,jO,OO at the outside Now, what is
the biggest per cent Of its population lhat
/ country can send % werf J believe no c0uH-
try in the world ever sent one in seven and
situated as the south was-a big territory and
! 100000 slaves-it couldn't have sent one boz
eight
But did you not get many from the Dor
der states-states that did not secedeT
Not 30 many a, the Federals got from the
states that did seceie Blaines book says the
two balanced but he only counts the men
/ from inside the Confederacy thal were actu-
ally counted in the Federal army, while, in
fact there were twice that many refugees
Bat did not your close CONSUMPTION get
more than one in eightT
CLOSE cOnscription wheref When that was
enforced one half the Confederate territory
was In the Federal lines--all tennessee halt
/ u Mississippi, Alabama north Of the river,
most Of Louisiana and all the three states
] west of the Mississippi were cut of, and clear
! ont OF our jurisdiction IN fact. the last
/ CONSUMPTION, the searching one, was only Ell
/ forced in five states, and in part Of them 1t
/ cost more than ~ came TO- Toe law exempted
men who worked twenty slaves, and, of
course, men bad % be left at home 10 run
/ ferries railroads, etc There Is no way OF
] HfNNlilA ull tue nNf lNHAltiA lAfil VI II NNMNhl
| into an army You must have some men 10
/ hold the machinery Of society together,
aud in so big q region as the Con.
/ federacy there had TO be a good many
such. Now, divide all the white people IN
the Confederacy by eight aud You would have
/ as. 001. and that's about 10000 more than
ever were in the Confederate army. It's
/ simple matter Of figures-you can't get
man where be isn't Suppose they got every
man who could carry gun, they would only
/ have 100000 Now, the Federal muster rolls
show that they had 335, 900 white men from
! the south, and the vote in the border states
ia 1864 showed that big majority Of their
men was at home, so where could the Con.
/ federacy have got the extra menf There is
] another way 10 get at f., and that's the parole
I lists Six different armies surrendered, aud
all the paroles together amounted 10 5j.4H
| Now, add just as many more for guerriilas
and prisoners m the north, and YOU have but
10000; and then add another OOO0Oor more
FOR deseftefs who did not come la for paroles.
and still you haven't 10000 Confederate sol
ders at the end of the war But, in fact. no
10000 failed 10 get paroles-eyery fellow
wanted one too bad-f0r We all thought &c
was big protection o. have Il parole Add
all that number, though If you like, and then
add $1,000 lost In the war and that's more
than anybody claims and YOU have then
but 6000O0 Ny own guess is that the Con
federacy had, not counting double enlist
ment, about $1,000 actual men in arms from
! first 10 last and that over 10000 II them
outiasted the war
"And where are they nowf
"In their graves, big majority OF them
You are As much mistaken about that as
the other, FOR the boys DO gray died faster
after the war than the boys in blue. They
averaged ten years older for one thing. and
then they didn't haye eood medicines when
they got SICK Ia the army aud they were
mighty poor Tor a long time after they went
home. Yes, reckon nigh to two-thirds Of
the survivors arr now gone. tell that this
way: Ny regiment at the reunion could count
more than hall already dead. aud I've asked
lots Of other boys and never found one
that could say hall the boy, who came out
alive with him we're alive now. No. | am
positive there are not IN all the world today
10000 Confederate soldiers alive. and II
them not more than 10000 in the sOuth-nOt
more than one IA a hundred Of the whole
population there; not Is many Is there are
old Federal soldiers IN the south
How do you make that ontF
why, the sixteen southern states, as the
army report says, furnished the federals 3d.
go white and about 1900 black troops; so
there were 10000 And, with the Federals
that went south after the var, feel pretty
positive they outnumber the Confederates
now Why, Chattanooga has twice As many
Fed a. COnfeis The plain truth is. We are
Il mighty small minority everywhere IN the
south, but tie living are the tough ones, any
how. The weakest died pretty fast just after
the surrender and the living bid fair TO hang
on "a good while Yes, you may say, too,
that good deal bigger proportion OF officers
lived than privates, because they We're better
hxed-had more money generally SO the
saving about every old 'COnfed' being a colo
mel OF captain isn't all q joke
Whether correct or not, the veterans hg-
ures are interesting. J. Is. PARgR